Improvement in combined hasps and latches



N. s; MINNI SS. v COMBINED HASPS AND LATCHES. No.18,148. Patented July 25,1876.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT @rrroa NATHAN s. MINNIss, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA,

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBIINOED HAS'PS ANDLATCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No; 180,148, dated July 25, 1876 application filed December 7, 1875.

' the following is a specification:

The object of myinvention is to furnish a hasp that answers the double purpose of both hasp and latch, and which I will call a hasplatch, which can be made either by being cut and shaped by dies from sheet metal or cast.

Figure 1 shows a right and left handed hasp-latch, A.' The holes H at each end are for screws or rivets, as either may be needed, when used for the right or left hand of the door, and eitherot' slots E are in like manner used with screws or rivets,to uphold the free end of the hasp-latch instead of a loop or sta- B is a lip, that projects downward and is curved outward, so that when it strikes the staple O in closing the door the hasp-latch is thrown up till the lip drops into the opening of the staple 0. (See Fig. 3.) D is apiece punched from the body of the plate centrally, and answers for a finger-piece to raise the latch by, whether used as right or left handed.

Fig. 2 is to be used Where it is more convenient to set a staple on a thin jamb, with the tines perpendicular instead of horizontal, as in Fig. 1.v In this case A slides on screws or bolts through the slots G, and is moved back or. forth by the thumb-piece F, or B may be shot into the staple by a spring or weight; or

the slots maybe cut so oblique as to let A slide forward by its own gravity, andin either case A may be operated from the opposite side of the door by a thumb-piece, a knob, or by a finger-hole through the door.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hasp-latch I and staple O caught over the lip or catch B.

The staple must always be large enough to Witnesses:

THos. S. MINNISS, J. N. MoOLosKEY.

NATHAN s. MINNISS. 

